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Abroad (Part Two)
Synopsis:
When Paul and Carol get divorced it forces their friends to look at modern relationships
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Contained in: "Five Plays by Michael Weller" published by New American Library 1982 -
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Alice
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in After Calcutta
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London 1976
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Approaching Moomtaj
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A Brooklyn Everyman becomes trapped in a Virtual Arab country after 9/11, forced to confront his own rage and chose between life, or a pointless death in pursuit of fantastic delusions, as terrorists do.
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New Rep Theatre In Boston 2004
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At Home (Split, Part 1)
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A seemingly perfect couple qiuarrels over how to prepare dinner and, ultimately, how to save their marriage
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1st Produced:
London 1981
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in "Split (full-length version)", French, New York, 1981 -
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Play One Act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Ballad Of Soapy Smith, The
Synopsis:
set in an Alaska Gold rush Town in 1897,a trickster commits the cardinal sin of believing in his own con
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1st Produced:
Seattle 1983
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Samuel French, NY, 1985 -
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Comedy/Drama Comedy
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Male: 24 Female: 9 Other: -
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Barbarians
Synopsis:
a small provincial Russian town is suddenly aroused from its lethargy by the imminent arrival of the first railroad
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Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter Blair And Jeremy Brooks
1st Produced:
New York 1980
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Samuel French, NY, 1982 -
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Adaptation
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Male: 15 Female: 8 Other: -
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Beast
Synopsis:
In Beast, descriebd as "a blood-red comic road adventure," two Iraqi War veterans-badly mutilated but as fiercely patriotic as ever-make their way home from a military hospital in Germany. their marauding adventure across America takes them to Crawford, Texas, where they meet up with their Commander-in-Chief (Larry Pine) and offer a surefire solution to all his problems.
- nytheatre.com
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Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009) 978-0822223498
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Bodybuilders, The
Synopsis:
While Keith plods on with his novel, his wife, Kate, methodically denigrates his output with her bitchy comments. But Keith is fully her match in nastiness, much to the consternation of the two bare-chested young musclemen, Powie and Flash, who suddenly pop in to introduce themselves and are caught in the crossfire. But the confrontation of their purely physical and oddly innocent presence with the jaded, cerebral psyches of the two antagonists produces an unexpected detente-which will last, no doubt, only so long as it takes to devise another lacerating, masochistic routine to succeed it.
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1st Produced:
London 1969
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972 -
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Comedy One Act
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Buying Time
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A pro-bono law firm try to shake off the unwanted attentions of a rich businessman
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Drama
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Cancer
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aka Moonchildren
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English Stage Company
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Faber and Faber, London (Plays & Players Dec 1970), 1971 -
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Genre:
Olay
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Male: 10 Female: 5 Other: -
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Cello Days at Dixon's Palace
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 1965
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Dogbrain
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Six-year-old Nicholas gets into hot water when he invents a non-existent creature called Dogbrain to blame for his bad behavior. When Dogbrain materializes (visible only to Nicholas) and wreaks havoc on his family, Nick and his little brother are forced into the night-time streets of the city where they encounter a huge dog, a bag person, and finally, a rescuer, straight out of Nicholas' imagination-the same imagination that conjured up his dark side as the creature Dogbrain. Thus does Nicholas learn how he has within him bad and good, and the power to keep them under his own control.
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This book provides the full texts of plays produced through the New Generation Play Project A consortium that included the Seattle Children's theatre, the Children's theatre Co. of Minneapolis, Louisville Children's theatre And the Honolulu theatre for Youth in 1989.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997
in Eight Plays for Children, University of Texas press - available fromSamuel French, NY -
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 2b
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Dopey Fairy Tale, A
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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
1st Produced:
Urbana, Illinois 1985
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Contained in: "Orchards " published by Knopf 1986 978-0394745350
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Adaptation
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Male: 8 Female: 3 Other: -
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Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes
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1st Produced:
Chicago 1981
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Fifty Words
Synopsis:
In Fifty Words, something's gone awry behind the idyllic facade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:30 p.m., things have gone, well. . .way past awry. Alternately funny and frightening, Fifty Words is an expansive look at modern marriage, as seen through the looking glass of one couple's long night's journey into day
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1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY 2008
Organisations:
MCC Theater
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009) 978-0822223481
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Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Fishing
Synopsis:
a married couple nearing thirty having failed at farming tentatively attempt to come to terms with life and reality through deep sea fishing
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1st Produced:
New York 1975
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Samuel French, NY, 1975 -
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Drama comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: -
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Fred
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music by Weller, form malcom by James Purdy
1st Produced:
Waltham, Massachusetts 1965
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Ghost On Fire
Synopsis:
a failed film director and a cameraman with a script reach a moment of reckoning and reconciliation that resolves all
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1st Produced:
La Jolla, California 1985
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Grove Press, New York, 1987 -
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy
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Male: 7 Female: 5 Other: -
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Grant's Movie
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1st Produced:
London 1971
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Faber and Faber, London, 1972 -
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Happy Valley
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh 1969
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Help!
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How Ho-Ho Rose and Fell in Seven Short Scenes
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music by Weller
1st Produced:
Manchester 1966
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Lake No Bottom
Synopsis:
husband and ex lover fight over woman by New England lake - at least the marriage is refreshed !
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Samuel French, NY, 1991 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Loose Ends
Synopsis:
relationships and individual personalities of the 70's as ex young world travellers marry and argue over whether to have children
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1st Produced:
Washington, D.C. 1979
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Samuel French, NY, 1980 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 7 Female: 4 Other: -
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Making of theodore Thomas, Citizen, The
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Playwright - Paul Green ( Johnny Johnson)
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London 1968
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Adaptation
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Moonchildren
Synopsis:
love affairs and problems of young students in shared flat during graduation year 1965-66 in an American University town
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Samuel French Inc, New York, -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 13 Female: 3 Other: -
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http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php
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More Than You Deserve
Synopsis:
A US army base in Vietnam during the War. the major is impotent and he falls in love with a reporter sent to cover the war. It turns out she is a nymphomaniac and she has sex with all the soldiers during one evening. Afterwards she thinks that maybe life would be better with the major
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Music And lyrics by Jim Steinman; book by Michael Weller
1st Produced:
Public Theatre, New York 21 Nov 1973
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Musical
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Now there's Just the Three Of Us
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1st Produced:
London 1969
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Comedy One Act
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Poison Come Poison
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1st Produced:
London 1970
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Sex Good; Money Bad
Synopsis:
Sex and money are the focus of these premiere comedies by Michael Weller. From a small apartment to a small dorm room, the occupants are visited by a few larger than life characters that throw a wrench into their plans. In Sex Good; Money Bad some get it and some don't. . .
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Broken Watch Theatre Company
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comedies
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Side Effects
Synopsis:
Michael Weller's Fifty Words culminated in one desperate phone call. SIDE EFFECTS is the story of what happened on the other end of the line. Hugh and Lindy's marriage seems picture-perfect, a beacon in their microcosmic Midwestern world of dinner parties and fundraisers. But, behind closed doors - doors they can barely keep shut - they're falling apart, and Hugh's rising political star is suddenly imperiled.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2012 978-0822225539
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Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Split
Synopsis:
home and away bittersweet comedy about contemporary relationships
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aka Abroad in Split (full length version)
1st Produced:
London 1977
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Samuel French, NY, 1979 -
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2 * 1 Act One Act
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Spoils of War
Synopsis:
chronicles the desperate attempts of a sixteen year old boy to reconcile his divorced parents
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1st Produced:
New York 1988
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Samuel French, NY, 1989 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Tira Tells Everything there Is To Know About Herself
Synopsis:
At the outset Tira awaits the arrival of her lover, Edward, who, she admits, bores her. When he goes off to retrieve the present he forgot to bring her, she is visited, in turn, by four other and quite dissimilar possible lovers-all played by the single male actor in the play. there is Poof, the lisping faggot; Lucio, the uncertain Latin gigolo; Brute, the belching lout; and, finally, the sensitive, withdrawn Tib. In their encounters Tira acquires qualities complementary to each, but all ultimately disappoint, and Tira, having found that all there is to know about herself is nothing, turns to suicide as the inevitable alternative.
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1st Produced:
London 1971
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972 -
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Drama One Act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Twenty-Three Years Later
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles 1973
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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What the Night is For
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US Premiere is slated for April 2004 At the Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, California.
1st Produced:
Comedy, London 2002
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Oberon Press, 2002 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Zhivago
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Music by Lucy Simon; lyrics by Amy Powers; lyrics by Michael Korie; book by Michael Weller. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak
1st Produced:
La Jolla Playhouse, New York 2008
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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